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TIL there are now more Americans in jail, 6 million, than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”

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4XjjR TIL Blue Whales cannot swallow large prey because their throat is tiny – only 4 to 8 inches in diameter! They primarily eat one of the smallest animals in the ocean – shrimp-like creatures called krill.
QJnPL TIL of Sadi Carnot (father of thermodynamics) who replaced the previously long-lived idea that heat was a substance by the conception of heat as a quantitative property
9YZkB Cyclists are 40 per cent less stressed than other commuters.
nWdWr TIL in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy and marched to Rome, where his army defeated the Papal forces. The 80-year-old Pope Pius VI was arrested for refusing to grant authority to Napoleon. He was taken prisoner and died in captivity 18 months later.
WQrB TIL Finding Nemo actually harmed wild clownfish populations since people started buying wild-caught, pet clownfish after seeing the movie